18th March 2011, 9:44 PM
Quote:Never wanted the games it was put in though...Micro Machines 2, Micro Machines '96, and Micro Machines Military were all Europe-exclusives in J-carts (what those are called), I love that series... I loved Micro Machines 1 for GB and 2 for PC back in the '90s, if the Genesis versions were easier/cheaper to get (and definitely worked on NTSC) I'd definitely be interested.
Quote:Yeah, Sega didn't really take the best path there. Nintendo didn't release their multitap in time, Hudson beat them to it, but Nintendo went with it and just made that one the official multitap for everything. The light gun thing is a bit silly too. Nintendo's side didn't do much better. There were those "enforcer" guns and the Super Scope. To defend the enforcer guns, that super scope was about the most absurd thing to come out of the "to the extreme" 90's. Honestly, it had no business being so ridiculously over sized. There was really nothing that gun did that a smaller gun couldn't do. The "Menacer" wasn't much better, what with all those silly accessories that didn't really add anything to the game.SNES Konami Enforcer? I'd forgotten about that one... yeah, I guess it did exist. But yeah, at least there the Super Scope was pretty clearly not that good. Though I've never used a Menacer so I don't know if it was much better... at least the Konami guns are wired instead of battery powered.
But yeah, you're also right about the SNES multitap, Nintendo just decided to make Hudson's the official multitap, instead of competing with it with one of their own. Unless it was a licensed product from the beginning (in Japan I mean), and Nintendo decided that before it was released... either way, yeah, Nintendo just left that to Hudson. Sega decided they wanted a different one, not EA's. In their defense, Sega's is in some ways better than EA's -- EAs is a little box that plugs into the controller ports, while Sega's has wires with a separate box so it's nicer looking and a little more secure. Also the Sega model allows for two multitaps to be attached, because each one only needs one cord, so you can play with eight players. Though very few games support more than four players, there are a few sports games that do. EA's takes up both ports for the one tap so it's four player max.
Quote:Ah yeah I got the company wrong, but some of those controller port-in-cart games were released in America I think. I saw some sitting in a bin in one of the Vintage Stocks around here.Yeah, I assume it was an import. You do see such things once in a while.